How to Effectively Tutor, Mentor, and Coach Students Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

I am routinely asked for advice, predominantly from other tutors, about how to improve their effectiveness.

The most common questions have to do with how to reach, and effectively tutor, students diagnosed with ADHD. As a matter of fact, I have had calls from as far away as California and British Columbia. My hat goes off to the young men and women who are seeking out any information that will give them an edge and provide insight into how to help their students.

This video is a bit long…and I didn’t work from a script. That being said, I believe it will help. As a matter of fact, if this video helps just one tutor help one student, then I believe it will have been worth the time…for all concerned.

Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to hone your craft. I hope the information in this video will help both you and your student.

To that end, I wish you all the best! Please let me know what you think! I will try to respond to any questions in a timely manner.

Hiring the Best Tutor and a Steve Jobs Tribute

Written by Hugh MacLeod of Gapingvoid Art

A thought-provoking tribute written by a wonderfully warm and incredibly talented and provocative young artist!

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know why I’ve shared Hugh MacLeod’s brilliant tribute to Steve Jobs.

If you haven’t and don’t, please read on and take the time to watch the video posted below…and thank you for taking the time to visitWestside Tutoring and Testing Services’ blog!

Hiring a Professional Tutor for Students Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

I’ve written and spoken at length about how important it is to hire a qualified tutorfor your son or daughter, particularly if they have been diagnosed with ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or any other of the myriad learning disabilities currently recognized by medical science. If you are one of our many subscribers, here or on YouTube, then you may have noticed how very passionate I am about hiring a professional and qualified tutor.Hiring a qualified tutor is absolutely crucial for your child’s short and long term success.

Additionally, if you follow me here or elsewhere online then you know that I never use the phrase learning disability. In fact, I believe this is the very first time!

It’s a hard and fast rule with me: I use the term learning challenge(s), as opposed to learning disability. In particular, I do so when writing or speaking about how best to understand and deal with the myriad challenges parents and students face as they attempt to deal with ADHD—or any of the other learning challenges—and there is a reason!

In August’s newsletter, I will state my reasons for making the distinction between the label Learning Disabilityand the term Learning Challenge…and why it is so important we, as parents and educators, do so. The distinction? I gave you a hint in the preceding sentence!

For now, I will add this:

The difference, while seemingly insignificant, is profound and speaks to how we diagnose, perceive, address, treat (medically and socially), and educate children, and now adults, with ADHD. Sadly, many of the learning challenges we face, day in and day out, are little understood and inadequately addressed…at any level!

How can we understand and treat ADHD when many educators and doctors, the very individuals our children depend on for help, refuse to believe it’s real?

This is a Brain on ADHD: Any Questions?

If the individuals charged with understanding and addressing ADHD, in and out of the classroom, refuse to believe it’s a real condition (watch for an upcoming video and article sequence on this point), where do children and parents turn for help?

It’s no wonder so many children, with or without a formal ADHD diagnosis, are falling through the cracks!

No Child Left Behind?

Between the failure of our education system to adequately address ADHD-affected students and the barely-concealed skepticism, bordering on cynicism, many educators and physicians express, it’s a wonder our children get out of the gates at all.

Again, I will go in depth regarding all of the above and more in the August 15th newsletter.

Please stop back often and subscribe to our newsletter (see the subscription box, top-right sidepanel). New editions of the Westside Tutoring and Testing Services Newsletterare emailed on the 15th of the month.

Professional Tutoring throughout the Cleveland Area for Students from 5 to 55 Years of Age

Tutoring for All Subjects and All Levels: Specializing in the Gifted and Students with ADD and ADHD

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services is an education-based consulting firm focusing on academic support, to include one-on-one tutoring throughout suburban Cleveland.

Call 216-712-7004 (voicemail monitored 24/7/365)

Below you will find a partial list of the subjects Westside Tutoring and Testing Services offers tutoring in. Westside-Tutoring and Testing Services tutors students of all ages, from pre-school and elementary school through graduate and professional school:

Science Tutoring

Earth Science

Physical Geography

General Science (often taught in the freshman year of high school)

Biology

Embryology

Osteology

Anatomy and Physiology

Gross Anatomy

Microbiology

Chemistry

Biochemistry

Physical Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Physics

Math Tutoring

PreSchool Math

Elementary Math

Middle School Math – General Math

Pre-Algebra

Algebra I

Algebra II

Geometry

Trigonometry

Pre-Calculus

Calculus

Statistics – Beginner through Graduate Level

In tribute to a great math tutor and educator.

We’re sorry to inform you that Henry the Mathman passed away on September 8, 2011.

He was 88.

History Tutoring

World History

US History – Pre-Revolution to 1865

US History – Reconstruction to 1945

US History – Post WWII to Present

Western Civilization – The Golden Crescent to the Fall of Rome

European History – The Fall of Rome through Enlightenment and Revolution

European History – Emerging from Revolution to WWII

European History – The Holocaust in Depth

European History – WWII to Present

Egyptian History

Africa and the Fight for Colonial Power (we can drill down – Africa is a huge continent and topic)

Africa: Emerging from the Yolk of Colonial Power to Present (we can drill down – Africa is a huge continent and topic)

Asia – Focusing on China and Japan (we can also delve into Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc)

Russia – The Tsars (Peter the Great, the Ivans, Catherine the Great, and the fall of the Tsars)

Russia – The Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 through Perestroika

Russia – The Purges

Russia – From Lenin through Stalin

South American History

MesoAmerican History

Mexican History – Pryamids to the Fall of the Aztecs

Native American History and First Contact

English Tutoring, Grammar Tutoring, and Literature Tutoring

English – Grammar

English – Reading

English – The Essay, Critical and Creative Writing

English – The Research Paper and Technical Writing

African American Literature

American Literature – Prior to 1860

American Literature – 1860 to 1945

American Literature – 1945 to Present

American Literature – The Great American Novel

British Literature – The Greats: Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, etc.

British Literature – The Industrial Revolution to 1945

British Literature – 1945 to Present

British Literature – The Novel

Humanities Tutoring and More

Anthropology Tutoring

Archaeology

Biological Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Forensic Anthropology

Linguistics

Physical Anthropology

Psychology Tutoring

Introductory Psychology

Social Psychology

Child Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

Learning and Cognition in Psychology

Personality Psychology

Sociology Tutoring

Economics Tutoring

Micro-economics Tutoring

Macro-economics Tutoring

Business Management Tutoring

Marketing Tutoring – Across a Broad Range of Topics

Sales Instruction – Want to be a better salesperson?

Learn from one of the best! Results are guaranteed!

Test Preparation

High School Standardized Tests

PSAT

Standardized Tests (there are several used at present – school district dependent)

Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional School Application Consulting

Application Support – College or university and graduate school or professional school applications must be professional and set you apart!

We can help you do this!

Personal Statement Assistance

Scholarship Application Assistance

Complete Application Support – From targeting the right program through admission

Our program yields results for students focusing on academics and/or athletics!

Reading

Fundamental Reading – For those struggling with the ability to read

Speed Reading – Our most recent student went from 190 words per minute to 1100wpm in 12 weeks! Of course, every student is different and the above mentioned student was and remains highly motivated, but anyone can double, triple, and quadruple their reading speed in 12 weeks.

Our Most Popular Courses by Far: Study Skills and Time Management

Study Skills – Think back to the many courses you’ve had that deal with study skills….

Yeah, that’s our experience too. To date we’ve not had a student who has had a course that taught study skills, much less time management!

In fact, most students can go through 13 to 17 years of education, some students at the best prep schools and universities in the country, and never have a class on how to read faster and with greater comprehension.

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services teaches students to read more effectively in order to get the most out of the material you are reading, whether it’s for some sort of academic pursuit, business endeavor or project, or some other “serious” pursuit because that sort of education is lacking too.

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services teaches students to write well, and in a way that conveys both the student’s thoughts and ideas in a clear and concise manner.

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services teaches students to study for an exam…the right way!

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services teaches students to outline a chapter…again, the proper way!

Westside Tutoring and Testing Services teaches students to do independent research…in a library with real books that require a different sort of attribution….even when taking an independent study course!

And so on….

I think you are getting the idea by now. Westside Tutoring and Testing Services, and its founder and CEO Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr., are motivated to one end, to eliminating the need for tutoring services…for anyone! No, it will not happen, not completely and not in our lifetime. But we can make it possible for students to no longer require our services one student at a time.

Kind of like planned obsolescence!

No, we will never be obsolete, at least I hope not.

However, as one of our students discovered, a very bright boy in the local school system’s gifted program, if you apply yourself for a specific period of time—and we mean really commit—you will never need our services for that course again! Sure, you may need a little help here and there, even Michael Jordan had a coach, but you will never need the kind of help you need if you’re about to crash and burn in geometry!

By the way, the student I mentioned above has since moved to Pennsylvania and is doing extremely well! I know this because I received a Father’s Day text from him.

Well, it is a different world, I guess!

Time Management – Begin to take charge of your life as never before!

Whether you are considering this course for a child, perhaps a high school or college student, or for yourself, this course will change your life!

Again, the results are different for each and every student but one thing seems to be universal:

The students graduating from the Time Management course are far and away better off than they were coming in.

Study Skills and Time Management are not taught in the conventional fashion.

We know you know all about “To-Do Lists!” We are going to introduce you to a new way to think. In fact, we will revolutionize the wayyou think…and conduct yourself day-in-and-day-out. No, I am not talking about a lot of new age mambo-jumbo, I am talking about a course that works. In fact, the Time Management course sells out every year. We only take 10 students per year and we do not accept more than ten until someone has move on and is successfully applying our principles…with exciting, even gratifying results.

Why limit it to 10?

We’ll, first and foremost, we want every student to get the most out of the course and out of the instructor. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, we only have so much TIME!

So, call today, spots always fill up fast as we move closer to the New Year.

For information and/or a free consultation and assessment, call today!

440-821-7018

NOTE: We do not answer the phone while with students, that’s their time! So, if Professor Z or one of his assistants cannot get to the phone, leave a message. We will call you back as soon as we are free, and certainly by the end of the day. Thank you!

I work with students diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit disorder) every day. Most of these students are bright, creative, imaginative, and an absolute joy to work with.

ADD & ADHD affected students just need their own brand of attention…and the right vehicle for expression.

If you think your child, a child already labeled, can’t do well and even excel?